Kenyan President announces additional funding for national AIDS response

Aug 17 2012

"Kenya's government, under the leadership of President Mwai Kibaki, has allocated additional funding to its national AIDS response," UNAIDS reports in a feature story on its webpage, noting, "The announcement came last Friday during a high level advocacy meeting in Nairobi." "President Kibaki stressed in the meeting that despite a scarcity of resources in Kenya, the Government will not waver in its commitment to the national AIDS response," UNAIDS writes, adding, "More than 85 percent of resources for Kenya's response to HIV currently come from development partners" (8/15).